Living Lightly

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by Mark Sunderland
The Dunbarton Dryer is a clothes drying rack that addresses the substantial volume of unusable real estate above a townhouse stairwell.
The Dunbarton Dryer is completely removable and easily stored when it’s not in use. When nothing is hanging on it, it is fairly inconspicuous and, being made of wood, it is [...]

Originally published in the Ottawa Citizen, Thursday July 24, 2008 
  
 
Real Energy Security for the G8 
 
Lessons about power from a small town in Germany 
 
By David Chernushenko 
 
The recent G8 Summit achieved one important result. It showed that too many of our 
leaders still think energy “security” can be achieved by calling for an increase in the rate 
of oil [...]

When it comes to pursuing a better quality of life on a healthier planet, most Canadians are ready to act. Or nearly ready — and there lies the challenge. Most of us want to take action, but we are waiting for someone to lead us. The problem is we are looking in the wrong places.

A [...]

By David Chernushenko
Sometimes you arrive in a new place and instantly get a positive feeling, a sense that there is something “right” there. Occasionally you know exactly what or why; other times it’s just a feeling and it takes a while to put a finger on the cause.
In the course of a week in Denmark, [...]

By David Chernushenko
Ottawa Citizen
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
As a dutiful parent and temporary “home schooling” teacher, I just had to ask my daughter that pedagogical question: “What did you like most about Venice?”
This is the girl who, ever since reading Cornelia Funke’s The Thief Lord, was aching to visit Venice. We asked each child to name [...]

By David Chernushenko
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of interesting places, stories and interviews. Here are some of the highlights:
Freiburg and Freiamt, Germany

I came to Freiburg to see for myself what leads the city to call itself the Solar Capital of Europe. And I wanted to visit a [...]

Lyon
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The launch of the public bicycle in Paris last summer (the Velib, or free bike) got a lot of attention, but the city of Lyon has had a similar program in place for several years. I spent a day in Lyon watching and filming people of all ages whiz by on [...]

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You’ll have to forgive the good people of Europe’s cities for wondering what that strange man with the camera is doing filming their recycling containers, bicycle stands and tramlines. I have been making my way across parts of France and Germany since early March, taking notes and pictures of how people [...]

By Anouk Hoedeman
“Living Lightly” is an expression I learned less than two years ago, when I first met David Chernushenko, but it’s a concept with which I’ve been familiar for as long as I can remember.
I credit my mother, who became one of those idealistic, back-to-the-land types in the ’60s. Thanks to her, I grew [...]

The Living Lightly film is now in the hands of professionals – professional editors that is. By early December we had filmed more than 25 hours of interviews and background footage. I had a list of more than a dozen other subjects ready and willing to be interviewed and filmed. As great as every one [...]